Patchit is an MIT Licensed unified diff parsing and merge tool written in
Python for anyone who needs a finer grain of control over unified diff
content and to merge the diff with an arbitrary stream of lines.

Motivation

The motivation for this package arose from the

overwhelming complexity of other patching tools written in Python,

their absence from the PyPI,

their inability to inspect the unified diff content and

missing support to merge the patch with an arbitrary stream of lines.

Installation

To install patchit just run from the root of the project:

$ python setup.py install

Testing

Tests are located at the tests.py file. In order to test your new
contribution to patchit just run from your shell

$ python setup.py test

Contribute

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make it much better myself. Therefore I’m
asking anyone who is interested in a patch functionality for Python to
improve this package and hand in patches by mail or pull requests.

The preferred method of development is a test driven approach and following
the nvie git flow branching model. Please be so kind to bear these things in
mind when handing in improvements. Thank you very much.